Hana played by Russian actress Sasha Luss suffers from debilitating agoraphobia. She resides in a run-down apartment in a nondescript city where she ekes out a meagre living playing and testing video games. Her only friend in the world is her upstairs neighbour Jen (Alexis Ren).
She receives a prototype video game controller to test, which she hopes will enhance her gameplay. It uses technology that taps directly into her brain and speeds up her play to previously unknown speeds. She uses it to help her win a quarter million dollars in prize money from an online competition.
As the device exponentially expands her gaming abilities, it also injects itself into her thought process and cognitive skills. This expansion blurs the lines of her reality and gives clues to the causes of her fragile state of mind. It also fills her mind with horrifying scenarios but she cannot resist its grasp.
As a comment on the perils of unchecked technological advances regarding the human brain, it is right on the mark. We already live in a time when they are implanting microchips in our grey matter. As a horror film, it loses a bit of focus. There are some very creepy moments but not enough to sustain the fright.
Latency gets its DVD and Digital release on December 4 in Australia & New Zealand.
Rob Hudson
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